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Final Project Report 2010 What’s That Snake? Project Report October 2008 – December 2010 By Nigel Hand Project Officer To safeguard adder populations from potential future persecution site locations for adder records will not be revealed in the results of this survey 1 What’s That Snake? Contents 1.0 Introduction 2.0 What’s That Snake? Why needed 3.0 Project aspects 3.1 Project Manager 3.2 Education 3.3 Wildplay 3.4 Reptile Survey Training & Surveying 3.5 Guided Walks 3.6 Roadshows 3.7 Interpretation Materials 3.8 Website Pages 3.9 Celebration Events 4.0 The Surveys 4.1 Survey Training Events 4.2 Survey Refuges 4.3 Sites for Survey 4.4 Survey Protocols 4.5 Survey Results & Conclusions 4.6 Results by Species 4.7 Survey Conclusions 5.0 Education 5.1 School Pack 5.2 School Reptile Encounters 5.3 Education Achievements 6.0 Promotional Leaflets produced and distributed 7.0 Roadshows 8.0 Public Walks 9.0 Project Summary 10.0 Survey Training Feedback Form examples 11.0 School Visit Feedback Form examples 2 What’s That Snake? 1.0 Introduction This two year wildlife educational project was funded with £60,000 from the Heritage Lottery plus additional funding from the Malvern Hills AONB (Area of Outstanding Beauty) and the Wye Valley AONB. Organised and run by a collaboration of HART - Herefordshire Amphibian and Reptile Team and HNT - Herefordshire Nature Trust. Herefordshire Amphibian and Reptile Team is an active local voluntary wildlife group dedicated to the conservation of amphibians and reptiles in Herefordshire. The group has been in existence for ten years and its principle aims are to encourage people to learn about, protect and conserve reptiles and amphibians; and to inspire people of all ages to record and monitor populations and become involved in wildlife habitat management and restoration. This group has already run two successful pond focused projects in the county. In collaboration with the Herefordshire Biological Records Centre the group produced a full colour guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Herefordshire in 2006, based on results from the pond projects and other surveys and records for amphibians and reptiles. Herefordshire Nature Trust is the largest membership - based local wildlife organisation in the county with a membership of over 3,000, promoting wildlife, owning and managing 54 nature reserves throughout the county and inspiring people of all ages about conservation and sustainable living. The Trust has run many successful projects over the years focusing on many species and habitats. 2.0 What’s That Snake? Why needed The project came about through a serious lack of reptile records in Herefordshire and a poor public understanding and acceptance of reptiles, particularly snakes. The adder (Vipera berus) is a widespread species in the UK but has suffered severe declines in Herefordshire and the West Midlands. These are due to habitat losses, habitat degradation and past persecution. All reptiles are now National Biodiversity Action Plan Species and the adder has a Local Species Action Plan in the County. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Herefordshire (Hand.N, King.P, Watson.W, 2006), produced by HART, revealed a disturbing lack of reptile records, particularly for adder and viviparous lizard. These two species are now 3 extremely localised in the county, but according to records were more common in the past as documented in the Woolhope Transactions recorded, collected and documented by the Victorian naturalist Gerald Rowley Leighton. His book The Life History of British Serpents and Their Local Distribution In The British Isles (Leighton .R.G 1901 William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh and London) contained his thesis - The Reptilia of the Monnow Valley , the author ’s personal observations of the snakes found on the Welsh/Herefordshire border, Garway Hill and surrounding district. Leighton resided in Grosmont and detailed adder sightings within this area, encouraging locals to bring adders to his surgery to be preserved in alcohol. Leighton ’s surgery was supposedly heaving with dead snakes and the pictures within his book, are all of dead snakes posed to look like live ones. Leighton details “In this province the adder is more common than the ring snake (grass snake) all along the western border of the provience from West Hereford to the Forest of Dean.” The adder has suffered through intentional persecution, such as collecting (Leighton), over the centuries, intensive agricultural practices, urbanisation, overgrazing and commercial woodland practices. The major populations of adder and viviparous lizard in the County were probably always restricted to the borders with Worcestershire, Shropshire and Wales, a landscape of rolling hills and extensive woodlands. Populations would have existed elsewhere in the central portion of the County, with its connectivity of woodlands and a less intensive rural landscape, but now this is too intensively agriculturalised to support good populations of reptiles. With the knowledge of historical reptile decline, the first step in addressing this is by influencing and inspiring public opinion through education and awareness but also by concentrating on obtaining more recorded data on the species. T he What’s That Snake ? project was designed to tackle this. Snakes do arouse many emotions in people from complete fascination to fear and loathing. The fear of snakes (ophidiophobia) is fairly common and irrational fear and hatred of these creatures can be passed on unwittingly. Therefore convincing the public that these creatures are just as important and worthy of conserving as any other species in our environment and even influencing habitat creation on private land or nature reserves was the main aim. Many people have never seen or are unable to recognise the different reptile species. This could be addressed by a wide ranging and focused educational project and interpretational displays and handout leaflets. 4 3.0 Project aspects 3.1 Project manager A project manager, Nigel Hand, was employed to manage and oversee the project working in conjunction with HART and HNT. 3.2 Education The project visited over 50 Herefordshire schools, including schools in the Wye Valley AONB area and Malvern Hills AONB area. A curriculum based school pack for Key stages 1 and 2 was designed and given to all the County’ s primary schools with worksheets, activities, posters, reptile id and awareness leaflets and a DVD showing the local species and their habitats linked to the pack. The pack used the subject of local snakes and lizards to deliver the curriculum, giving facts on the species, prey-predator food chains, lifecycles, camouflage and habitats, myths and folklore including local and overseas, creative writing, art based projects and awareness games. 3.3 Wildplay What’s That Snake? organised outdoor based play activity, run by the Wildplay unit of Herefordshire Nature Trust. These would focus on Sure Start groups, parent and child groups, and school reception year. 3.4 Reptile Survey Training and Recording Survey training days were arranged showing people how to get out finding and recording reptiles. Working with the Forestry Commission, private landowners the Malvern Hills Conservators, Natural England, Coppet Hill Trust, areas were selected for survey. 3.5 Guided walks These were put on for wildlife conservation habitat volunteers, the general public, parents and children, Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and its members, Malvern Hills Conservators work party volunteers Wye Valley AONB staff and volunteers, HNT work party volunteers and its members, landowners. The walks were held to publicise the species and their habitat requirements. 3.6 Roadshows A travelling road show was created to go to the County’ s events seeing as wide an audience as possible with the reptile display and leaflets. Events attended included Malvern Three Counties Show, the Herefordshire Country Show, Hellens Open garden, various wildlife based events, Bio-blitz - a Biodiversity Partnership Event, Herefordshire Nature Trust new membership days. 5 3.7 Interpretation materials Display boards were designed and produced for mobile exhibitions illustrating the local reptiles and their habitat. In addition to these were a striking banner and two leaflets: A Guide to Herefordshire’s R eptiles, illustrating the species with a tear off recording slip for people to send their sightings to Herefordshire Biological Records Centre and a leaflet for landowners; Reptile Habitat Management Guidelines for Landowners. These were mailed out to Nature Trust members, FWAG members, and available for all the conservation bodies; Forestry Commission, National Trust, Woodland Trust and on display at tourist information centres and libraries. 3.8 Website Pages The project was shown on the HART and Herefordshire Nature Trust websites. The pages outline the project goals and news and offer downloadable pdfs of the two reptile leaflets. 3.9 Celebration Events Two celebration events were organised as a reward for the efforts of volunteer reptile surveyors. 4.0 The Surveys The What’s That Sna ke? project began in October 2008 with the appointment of the project officer and ran until December 2010. A key stage of the project was to run reptile survey training days – these were done in March 2009 and in the following March and April 2010. Indoor venues included the Wyche and Castlemorton on the Malverns, Woolhope in Hereford, Goodrich in Ross-on-Wye, Moccas, Holme Lacy College Hereford, Richards Castle Shropshire /Hereford border (twice) and Clifford Church. These involved a morning indoor session and an afternoon session looking at a reptile site. The training was intended to increase the known recorded data on the County ‘s reptile locations but it was also strongly hoped it would inspire people ’s interest and familiarity with searching, recording and possibly pioneering new sites and locations for reptiles. 4.1 Survey Training Events 9 Reptile Survey Training sessions were held with 87 people attending. They were given information on the four local reptile species; two snakes the adder (Vipera berus) and grass snake (Natrix natrix) and the two lizard species viviparous lizard (Zootoca vivipara) and slow-worm (Anguis fragilis).
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